education

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man. — Aristotle

How You Can Use the 4 Gift Rule This Christmas | HyperJar The 4 gift rule is very simple: you get each of your children … Something They Want Something They Need Something To Wear Something To Read … the 4 gift rules is great because it helps teach children that they can’t always have everything they want, and helps them to focus on things they actually need. It also teaches them about sustainability — since you’re not buying anything in excess, meaningful gift giving, and gratitude — since they’ll get gifts they’ll really appreciate....

After 15 days of confinement due to COVID-19, with 2 adults working and 3 children attending school remotely, “WFH” is standing more closely to “Working from Hell” than “Working from Home”. 😱

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Se educas o teu cavalo aos gritos, não esperes que te obedeça quando simplesmente lhe falas. — Dagobert D. Runes (via Guillermo Ballenato in Faltam regras na educação das crianças – Expresso.pt )

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If we want to see women pay more equal to men, what we need to do is convince more women to go into areas such as the sciences, and the mathematics and engineering, and we need to convince men to take more responsibility for children in the house. When those begin to even out, we’ll see wages begin to even out as well. See also Thomas Sowell address these exact same concerns back in the 70s

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure. Human beings are naturally different and diverse . Curiosity is what drives human life flourishing. Human life is inherently creative . Education is not a mechanical system, it’s a human system, it’s about people! (via Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley | Video on TED....

It’s a great day to make a mistake. Jennifer Gresham (via The perfectionism cure – Everyday Bright )

Quem tem medo compra um não Os medos são companheiros mais ou menos frequentes das crianças. Aumentam ou decaem consoante a maneira como os pais não os entendem ou os abrigam. Se os pais os acolhem e, de forma firme, persuadem os filhos a enfrentarem-nos, o semáforo amarelo apaga-se aos poucos. Se os ignoram, tornam-nos um pouco mais alaranjados. Se os almofadam por todos os lados, dão-lhe gás e eles ficam avermelhados....